“Wo, bitter wo is me! I will shed a drop from my heart which shall corrupt all earthly things! And thence shall spring a ring-worm sterile—childless, and fling man-rotting spots through earth around!”
XI. “The elements with fierce, o’ershadowing frown.”
At pater omnipotens densa inter nubila telum
Contorsit (non ille faces, nec fumea tædis
Lumina) præcipitemque immani turbine adegit.
Virg. Æn. vi.
XXIII. “And halts the strife of man—his pellets cease to fly.”
Ἀντίτυπα δ’ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε τανταλωθεὶς
Πυρφόρος, ὃς τότε μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ
Βακχεύων ἐπέπνει